“Chemical Disguise” is a glitzy electro-pop effort led by a seriously bouncy bass and alternating vocal approaches, which alternate from robotic nonchalance in the verses to anthemic euphoria in the effervescent chorus,
New Tracks
Monthly compilations finally return with April 2016’s 🙂 Stream it above or listen to it here. For the Obscure Sound write-up on any of the featured acts/tracks, simply search for the artist
Crunchy guitars and confidently suave vocals kick off “Black Friday” in phenomenal form, the darkly intoxicating vocals reminiscent of Little Dragon’s Yukimi Nagano, while the production on that front comparable to Grimes’
DRENCH FRIES is the project of 18-year-old Levi Nattrass, a multi-instrumentalist and producer from San Diego who’s currently based in Massachusetts. The seemingly auto-biographical “Snow in April: The Sad Tale of a
With its clanging percussion, steady unveiling of hazy distorted guitars, and ominous choir-like vocal accompaniment, the beginnings of “Death Song” certainly do enough to capture one’s attention. Doo Crowder, the “leader of
Buffalo, NY native Matthew Kaz writes and produces under the name Katmaz, naming lovable pop oddballs like Beck and Damien Jurado as influences. His first solo album, Nautical Things, is out on
As He Said is a striking Norwegian pop project, whose members met in a music workshop and have since crafted a gorgeous sound consisting of shimmering guitars, gentle synths, and passionate vocals
It has been a few years since I featured Sun Cut Flat’s wonderfully lush synth-pop, via the track “Happiness Is A Wandering“, but it’s one I frequently come back to. On that
New Albums
Out today from Irish band neptune blood, debut EP A Quiet Riot Inside fuses early ’00s indie-rock immediacy with atmospheric, psychedelic intrigue.
MoreDrawing Mazes presents a reflective and atmospheric EP spanning five years of recordings, from 2020’s heartfelt “The Next Family” to this year’s
MoreGiuseppe Cucé’s new album 21 Grammi is a profoundly human conceptual success from the Sicilian singer-songwriter, built around the mythical “weight of the
MoreEastern Ontario’s husband-and-wife duo CameronStrings compel across their new EP, Eclectica — cohesively weaving rock, folk, R&B, and nuevo flamenco across its
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